It's amazing how Roddy can have an off year due to a chronic high ankle sprain all season, and it's like he's instantly a tier 2 WR in the league from this point on and on his way to some sharp decline.

Roddy is a 100+ reception 1400+ yards a season bona fide elite #1 WR on 27 or 28 teams in this league this year and probably for the next 2 or 3 years even. He hasn't lost a step and his stellar pass catching hands haven't suddenly turned in to iron skillets.

The only reason he might seem like a #2 with us is because he's got JJ on the other side of him and we had such a shitty OL that Matt was forced to throw to Tony 7x a game, who also just happened to be the best pass catching TE in history.

We are so fucking blessed to have two legit elite #1 WR's it's just crazy. With Tony gone, as long as the OL has actually improved to at least average instead of beyond shitty, I believe we'll finally see what it's really like to have two WR's of this caliber on the field at the same time. We didn't really get to see it with Tony being Matt's crutch and a horrible OL.

What Loomis has been doing in New Orleans for several seasons is backloading contracts and asking players with large cap hits to restructure or extending them. This allows the Saints to sign players to big money deals, but with lower cap hits due to spreading out bonuses. For Example:

In addition, FireDawg, the $4M Graham figure will actually lower his 2014 cap hit by $3.3M given that he was counting the full $7.3M of the franchise tag before the signing. Byrd's 2014 cap hit was exactly offset by the trading of Darren Sproles whose $3.5M hit would have been the same. Based upon projected TV revenues the cap is expected to rise around $10M in 2015. Brees will be set for an extension during the coming offseason which in itself could easily free up an additional $10M+.

It depends upon the quality of players already on the roster. The Saints have the talent to win now. They have depth at every position. They are not playing for several years down the road. We all know the cap can always be worked. Restructures have proven to be very effective for the Saints. They have been willing to cut players with no dead money and have been able to replace them for a fraction of the cap hit.

Since his injury (sorry but I don't care about the Saints cap crap, cause well, fuck the saints) Roddy has been called injury prone and old by the press. Forget the fact that he has only missed 3 games in his entire career he's declining. Everyone overlooks how great he looked down the stretch and that was without Julio. I think he was on a pace for like 1200 yards had those numbers been stretched out over 16.

It is possible for Roddy to pull in 1200-1300 yards and Julio to pull in 1600+ yards. Add in HD with 700 or so and who needs Gonzo.

Roddy has always been the engine that drives this offense. He never seems to get his due outside Atlanta or this site for that matte.r

He's ILB depth, nothing else. Dude had 148 tackles in 2011 playing a full season as the starting ILB. Then he got injured and only played 10.5 games in 2012, and same last year.

But 148 is a ton of tackles. If he is healthy and only playing part time as depth, this could be a very good pickup. So I like it. I'm sure he had to pass a physical, so I'm assuming he's healthy again.